[mirror-admin] master server sync stats and recommendations

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:50:45PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Matt_Domsch at Dell.com (Matt_Domsch at Dell.com) wrote on 22 April 2009 10:41:
>  >describes how Debian does push mirroring, complete with the ssh setup.
>  >I've not set this up before, but we've discussed here before using the
>  >same setup to trigger a pull (yes, in this case, push == triggered pull,
>  >which is safer), or using  other trigger forms (email, rss feed, ...).
>  >
>  >It's just something no one on the Fedora side has implemented.  I'm very
>  >open to adding code to MM to assist with this, but I haven't ever gotten
>  >around to it, and over the next few weeks I likely can't.  But if
>  >someone wants to take a crack at it, I'd love the help!
> 
> I didn't understand what's MM role in this. It's the master that has
> to send the signal to the mirrors, because only the master knows when
> it's finished updating. Why put another element in the chain?

MM may have little to no role in it.  It may be purely something that
has to happen in the release-engineering's toolchain.  Honestly, I
don't know.  If someone comes up with a plan that involves MM needing
some changes, I'm open to that.  Perhaps to describe the "chain" of
mirrors.  There's already a place for that in MM, but it's not used,
and could/should be though through better.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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